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SANDFORD CEMETERY

Location PORTLAND-CASTERTON ROAD, SANDFORD, GLENELG SHIRE Level Recommended for Heritage Overlay

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Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The Sandford Cemetery is located approximately 2 kilometeres to the south west of the town, on Portland -Casterton Road. Although there are several private burial grounds associated with large pastoral concerns in the area, many local townspeople and pastoralists are buried in the Sandford Public Cemetery. The earliest burials, evident on headstones date from the 1840s, and continue to current burials. The layout is typical of 19th century cemeteries, evoking an atmosphere of dignity and repose. The Cemetery is in good condition generally, and retains a high degree of integrity.

How is it significant?
The Sandford Cemetery is of historical, social and aesthetic significance to Glenelg Shire.

Why is it significant?
The Sandford Cemetery is of historical significance as an enduring record of those who have lived and died in the community, as a reflection of passing phases, ways of life and death, particular events, and as documentary evidence.

The cemetery is of social significance for reflecting the customs and tastes of the community, for reflecting different religious values, and for reflecting different economic and social status. It is also important as a place of passive recreation, with many family history researchers and tourists quietly visiting and walking through the graves every year.

The Sandford Cemetery is of aesthetic significance for its range of tombstones, memorials and iconography reflecting the aesthetics of different periods and groups within the community. It is also of interest for its overall design and position within the broader landscape.